Modifying the Sign-in Link

A user-friendly URL#

If you followed through with the previous lesson, you should be logged in to the AWS Management Console with your new AWS free tier account. In this lesson, we will just modify the sign-in link.

The sign-in link is the URL that users will use to log into their AWS account. It can be modified to become a bit more user-friendly.

Open up the management console to get started. There are two ways we find services in the management console. You can click on the "Find Services" search bar to search for the service.

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You can also just click on the search bar, and then you can scroll down and see all the different services.

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Alternatively, you can go to the services menu at the top, and then you get a list of all IAM services organized into categories.

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We want to use the service called Identity and Access Management or IAM, which is under the security identity and compliance category. Click on "IAM".

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We're now in the IAM dashboard, and you can see at the top here we have the IAM users sign and link. This is composed of the "account number" dot "signin" dot "AWS" dot "Amazon" dot "com" slash "console".

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We can actually modify this sign and link so that the account number is replaced by another value that we want to assign. The way we customize this is by choosing the button "Customize".

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Then we just type in the alias that we'd like to use and then choose "Yes, Create".

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Now, this does need to be unique, so you need to make sure that you've chosen a name that isn't already used, and that's all we need to do for now.

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A user-friendly URL#

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